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041 0 _aeng
042 _adc
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100 1 _aBishop, Thomas
_4aut
245 1 0 _aPrecision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_bRoutledge [Imprint]
_c2013
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aEarthscan Food and Agriculture
506 0 _aFree-to-read
_fUnrestricted online access
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520 _aPrecision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a non-specialist audience to the the role of PA in food security, environmental protection, and sustainable use of natural resources, as well as its economic benefits. The technologies covered include yield monitors and remote sensing, and the key agronomic principles addressed are the optimal delivery of fertilizers, water and pesticides to crops only when and where these are required. As a result, it is shown that both food production and resource efficiency can be maximized, without waste or damage to the environment, such as can occur from excessive fertilizer or pesticide applications. The authors of necessity describe some technicalities about PA, but the overall aim is to introduce readers who are unfamiliar with PA to this very broad subject and to demonstrate the potential impact of PA on the environment and economy. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415504409_oaChapter_3.pdf
540 _aOpen licence
_0https://oapen.org/article/rights
546 _aeng
650 0 _aPrecision farming.
650 0 _aSustainable agriculture.
650 6 _aAgriculture de précision.
650 6 _aAgriculture durable.
650 7 _aAgriculture and farming
_2thema
650 7 _aApplied ecology
_2thema
650 7 _aConservation of the environment
_2thema
650 7 _aEarth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
_2thema
650 7 _aPrecision farming
_2fast
650 7 _asustainable agriculture (discipline)
_2aat
650 7 _aSustainable agriculture
_2fast
650 7 _aSustainable agriculture
_2thema
650 7 _aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
_xAgriculture
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aTechnology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
_2thema
650 7 _aThe environment
_2thema
653 _aapplication
653 _afarming
653 _amatter
653 _aorganic
653 _arate
653 _aremote
653 _asensing
653 _asoil
653 _atechnology
653 _avariable
700 1 _aBishop, Thomas
_4edt
700 1 _aMarchant, Ben
_4edt
700 1 _aOliver, Margaret
_4edt
793 0 _aOAPEN Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46395
_zFree-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication
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